Saturday finds and ancient castle

Hello Friends

Yesterday, we went to a small town where I wanted to see a decoration shop I saw on The net.

This is a Shabby Chic boutique with a white romantic decoration.

At the same time I took a few pictures of the typical homes of our villages in Normandy.this is the presbytery, I took the pictures across the gates.

This one is what we call a « Maison bourgeoise » which is the houses where rich people from the town lived. This one has four chimneys!

These ruins were a fortified Casthle in the 12C replacing a Roman one.

 

In the shop, I found this silk rose with faded colours.

I will buy some more from time to time to make a nice bunch of roses.

We also went shopping to Lidl and found this terrarium with light  for 12 euros!

In the decoration shop I found this frame from Blanc Mari clo from Italy. Now I have to look for a picture!

What to do with vintage doilies.

 Hello  Friends,

I did not write on my blog for a few days, I was not feeling well.

Today, I will share with you the recipe to stiffen doilies.

Some years ago, I bought these doilies in some brocantes and had the idea of stiffen them to hang at the windows for Xmas.

I think I did it about four years ago and they still look nice.

You must keep them in a dry place to keep them stiff.

The recipe is 4 soup spoon sugar for 5 soup spoon water.

You may give them a shape or not when leaving them dry.

I have some more to do this week.

Today, I will be able to drive my car to an appointment, not very far... but I was not allowed to drive since my back surgery in September.

We will see if I have pains or not tonight.

Have a good day.

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Blue in the house.

 Hello Friends

Last night it has been snowing and it is cold today.

I like the light blue colour very much and I found these pictures on « Charming Decoration » I follow them on Facebook.

It is very inspiring for indoor and outdoor decoration.

When I do some decoration , it’ s mostly on a budget decoration.

I re use, re paint...

I used to do the paint and wallpaper in the house .

The harder piece for me was painting the cieling.

In the living room we have beams and in between the previous owners had put some red sort of mural carpet. In Normand houses 

In the past they often painted red in between the beams which made the rooms very dark. So I took all off and painted white

Which was a hard job.

In the living room we have an entire tree in the middle of the cieling . 

I hope you enjoyed the pictures and I wish you a good day.